Dawn: Diary One
4.5/5
()
About this ebook
At Vista, eighth graders are required to write personal journals about their experiences. Meet thirteen-year-old Dawn Schafer, the crunchy and health conscious member of the Baby-Sitters Club, who has returned to California to live with her father, stepmother, and brother. Dawn is thrilled to be reunited with her old friends Sunny, Maggie, and Jill.
It’s not always easy to keep the group together, though—things are changing fast since they moved the eighth-grade classes into the high school. With new social demands and decisions to make, Dawn sees just how much her old friends have changed since she moved away. Or is she the one who is different now? It’s time for this independent girl to let go of the life she had across the country and figure out just where she belongs now.
This ebook features an illustrated personal history of Ann M. Martin, including rare images from the author’s collection.
Dawn: Diary One is the 1st book in the California Diaries, which also includes Sunny: Diary One and Maggie: Diary One.
Ann M. Martin
Ann M. Martin grew up in Princeton, New Jersey. After attending Smith College, where she studied education and psychology, she became a teacher at a small elementary school in Connecticut. Martin also worked as an editor of children’s books before she began writing full time. Martin is best known for the Baby-Sitters Club series, which has sold over one hundred seventy million copies. Her novel A Corner of the Universe won a Newbery Honor in 2003. In 1990, she cofounded the Lisa Libraries, which donates new children’s books to organizations in underserved areas. Martin lives in upstate New York with her three cats.
Read more from Ann M. Martin
Betsy-Tacy and Tib Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Everything for a Dog Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Missing Since Monday Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Slam Book Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Rain Reign Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ten Good and Bad Things About My Life (So Far) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5With You and Without You Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bummer Summer Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Stage Fright Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Just a Summer Romance Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Me and Katie (the Pest) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ma and Pa Dracula Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsYours Turly, Shirley Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Inside Out Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Five Little Peppers and How They Grew Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related to Dawn
Titles in the series (26)
Sunny: Diary One Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Amalia: Diary Three Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Amalia: Diary One Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sunny: Diary Three Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dawn: Diary One Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ducky: Diary Two Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ducky: Diary One Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dawn: Diary Two Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Amalia: Diary Two Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ducky: Diary Three Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Maggie: Diary Three Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dawn: Diary Three Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sunny: Diary Two Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ducky's California Diaries: Diary One, Diary Two, and Diary Three Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMaggie: Diary Two Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Maggie: Diary One Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Maggie: Diary One Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Amalia's California Diaries: Diary One, Diary Two, and Diary Three Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMaggie: Diary Two Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMaggie's California Diaries: Diary One, Diary Two, and Diary Three Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDawn's California Diaries: Diary One, Diary Two, and Diary Three Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Maggie: Diary Three Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sunny's California Diaries: Diary One, Diary Two, and Diary Three Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Sunny: Diary Three Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sunny: Diary One Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sunny: Diary Two Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related ebooks
Sisters by Raina Telgemeier (Trivia-On-Books) Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Whole New Ball Game Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Friendship List #1: 11 Before 12 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sunny's California Diaries: Diary One, Diary Two, and Diary Three Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Luckiest Girl Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Umbrella Summer Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sister Switch Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This Is Me From Now On Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Confidentially Yours #1: Brooke's Not-So-Perfect Plan Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5We Are the Baby-Sitters Club: Essays and Artwork from Grown-Up Readers Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Cool Down Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMaggie: Diary One Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5All the Lovely Bad Ones Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Paperback Crush: The Totally Radical History of '80s and '90s Teen Fiction Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Ellie McDoodle Diaries: Have Pen, Will Travel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5It's the First Day of School...Forever! Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Amalia: Diary One Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lexie's Little Lie Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Art of Ramona Quimby: Sixty-Five Years of Illustrations from Beverly Cleary’s Beloved Books Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Sister of the Bride Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Truth or Dare Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Magic Half Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Willows vs. Wolverines Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5TBH #1: TBH, This Is So Awkward Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Fifteen Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bounce Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Will You Be My Friend? Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Dawn's California Diaries: Diary One, Diary Two, and Diary Three Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Fake Me a Match Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5My Mother Was Never A Kid Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
YA Family For You
The Giver Quartet Omnibus Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Giver: A Newbery Award Winner Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Legendary: A Caraval Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Finale: A Caraval Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Otherworld Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Do-Over Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5These Hollow Vows Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Caraval Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Three Dark Crowns Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Awake Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Allegedly Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Five Feet Apart Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Love & Gelato Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sadie: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5One Dark Throne Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Son Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Orbiting Jupiter Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Love & Luck Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5If You Find Me: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dawn's California Diaries: Diary One, Diary Two, and Diary Three Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Letters to the Lost Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bloodmarked Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Crown of Feathers Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Butterfly Assassin Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Gallant Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dry Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Pho Love Story Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Last Time We Say Goodbye Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Jacob Have I Loved: A Newbery Award Winner Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Rumble Fish Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Dawn
4 ratings1 review
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5i love reading these and listening to the Baby-Sitters Club Club podcast for really funny discussions about them
Book preview
Dawn - Ann M. Martin
Saturday morning 9/27
Okay, so I ran out of steam last night and never got around to writing about what happened in school. Or maybe I was afraid to write about it—as if putting the words on paper would make it seem even more real (and horrible). But there’s no point in delaying any longer. So here goes.
At the very end of school on Thursday, Mr. Dean’s voice came over the loudspeaker, and he said, Attention, all eighth-graders. Please report to the main auditorium tomorrow morning at 9:30 for an assembly with the students in grades nine through twelve. Thank you for your time.
(He’s always formal like that.)
An assembly for us eighth-graders with the high school kids? We never do things with the high school kids. And why just the eighth-graders? Why not the rest of the middle-schoolers? That was weird.
Well, guess what. What happened at the assembly was beyond weird. It was unbelievable. And scary. At 9:30 all us eighth-graders were excused from our classes, and we left the middle school building and walked to the auditorium. I met Sunny, Maggie, and Jill at the entrance to the auditorium. Sunny and Maggie and I tried hard to look like we weren’t actually with Jill, since she was wearing this sweatshirt with huge crayons painted on the front. You could tell she thought it was cute, but really. Anyway, the four of us walked into the auditorium, and suddenly I felt the way I did at my very first assembly at Vista. I was a kindergartner then, and the assembly was for all the kids in the lower grades, so there I was with the fourth-graders. They looked like giants to me, and I felt like a pea.
That is exactly the way I felt with the high school kids. I’d like to think I am just as cool and just as grown-up as they are. But, well, I got a good look at them. Some of the guys have to shave. And some of them must be six feet tall. I mean real adult men. And the senior girls? Real adult women. Who have huge chests and wear lots of makeup. And, I don’t know, I just felt like they were way more than four or five years older than me.
Let me put it this way. Since some of the seniors are eighteen already, we are talking about kids who can drive and vote. Among other things. I looked at this one enormous guy who could practically have been my father. Then I looked at Jill in her crayon sweatshirt. My heart began to pound—and I didn’t even know what the assembly was going to be about.
Believe me, we found out soon enough.
This was the announcement: Because the middle school has become overcrowded this year (due to the current surge in eighth-grade enrollment, just like Tray had said), the eighth-graders are going to move to the high school building. The middle school building at Vista will now be for grades five, six, and seven. The high school building will be for grades eight, nine, ten, eleven, and twelve.
Maggie, Sunny, Jill, and I are in high school.
Saturday afternoon 9/27
We’re in high school.
I just cannot believe it.
Over the weekend, things will be moved around in the high school building to make room for us eighth-graders. And on Monday morning, we will report to the high school.
The high school.
Unthinkable.
We won’t be the Rulers anymore,
I said sadly to my friends as we walked out of the assembly.
I might add here that us eighth-graders did not look like the only ones in shock. The high school kids looked pretty shocked, too. And no wonder. A big bunch of babies were about to join their ranks. I’m sure that’s what they thought as they looked around and saw things like crayon sweatshirts. (And Peg, this other friend of Jill’s, was actually carrying a troll doll. It was sticking out of her puppy